Behind The Lens

Recent Episodes

Odorless, invisible and deadly: Exxon plans to lay carbon pipeline alarmingly close to La. residents

Posted September 26, 2025 • 00:32:10

Delaney Nolan and Emily Sanders on an Exxon pipeline set to carry highly compressed carbon dioxide in St. James Parish. And Elise Plunk on a Tulane...

Ep. 283: After the Smitty’s Supply explosion, concerns for Lake Pontchartrain

Posted September 19, 2025 • 00:30:30

Reporter Delaney Nolan on environmental pollution concerns in the wake of the explosion at Smitty's Supply. [...]

Episode 282: Orleans Parish Prison after the storm 'We're still in here'

Posted September 5, 2025 • 00:30:04

Bernard Smith and Katy Reckdahl on the men trapped in the Orleans Parish Prison and Broad Street Bridge in the wake of the levee breaches after Hurricane...

Behind The Lens episode 281 part II: ‘Completely inadequate’

Posted August 26, 2025 • 00:31:01

Longtime environmental reporter Mark Schleifstein on the federal flood after the U.S. Army Corps’ levees failed and flooded 80 percent of the city...

Behind The Lens episode 281 part I: ‘Completely inadequate’

Posted August 22, 2025 • 00:27:48

Longtime Times-Picayune environmental reporter Mark Schleifstein on the federal flood after the U.S. Army Corps' levees failed and flooded 80 percent...